To ask if my joke to new work colleague would have offended you?

Are you a woman? Your colleague was probably cringing herself inside out.

Embarrassed for you OP, that’s lame. Maybe you caught her off guard because I would have told you to fuck right off and asked if a couple
of eggs have that effect on you…

Or she does have a good sense of humour, so thought this “joke” was about as entertaining as watching athlete’s foot develop.

The joke itself isn’t the point.

The point is the OP singling out the new person and pulling a stealth move to put her in her place by deliberately making her feel uncomfortable.

The joke would probably have been fine (puerile but harmless) if the OP knew the person well but she didn’t.

A fart joke is a bit out there, especially aimed towards a new colleague who you are still getting to know, and who is still getting to know you.

If I'd been your colleague, I'd have probably forced out an "amused chuckle" for the sake of workplace harmony. But I'd have also been thinking you were a bit of an idiot.

I'm a bit surprised you sat there, and thought in your little head, "Ah! The perfect moment for a fart-adjacent joke!"

Those sorts of jokes are only passable between 10yo boys and friends you've known for 30 years. New work colleagues aren't the ones.

Hopefully your relative silence on the thread has meant you've seen the error of your ways.

But the point of the thread is literally that it didn't crack the ice with the new employee because they either didn't get it, didn't find it funny, or didn't appreciate the OP making them the focus if their 'banter'. Given that most people agree with the colleague, maybe your definition of 'anal' is a bit out of step with what most people consider appropriate in a work environment.

It's also interesting that some who would find it funny think that others mustn't have a soh.

Can't people just find different things funny?

I think I would assume you're quite boring, make a polite but awkward smile and move on with my day.

I dont even get whats ment to be the joke? Not surprised at her blank face.

A disciplinary for a fart joke! Fml Mumsnet is another world at times

It's not that though is it?

It's deliberately trying to humiliate or make someone uncomfortable.

I mean, it wasn’t really a light hearted, jokey comment was it. It wasn’t funny and totally irrelevant. Maybe you are trying far too hard and are deluded into thinking you are funnier than you actually are.

A disciplinary for a fart joke! Fml Mumsnet is another world at times

There is a lot wrong with making a crass joke about someone's bodily functions, someone you don't know very, presumably in front of others, who the new colleague also wouldn't know very well, if at all, yet she has to work with them. I'd be very embarrassed if I was the butt of the 'joke' and would nake a mental note to steer clear of you, during lunch time at least

What age are you had to double check you didn't say high school no you Def said work are you all on work experience or something back to school next week

Nothing to do with lack of sense of humour. It was just not funny and irrelevant.
I’m embarrassed for you OP.

Let me guess.
You would describe yourself as "bubbly", laugh like a foghorn and say things like "I'm mad me!!!!"

No sense of humour failure on your part!

Its just a really childish crap 'joke'. As a recipient i would be cringing, not found it funny cos im not 6 and no doubt said as much but with a smile on my face

Of course I wouldn't be offended. But jokes are meant to be funny. And this isn't.

It crossed a professional boundary at work and was not a welcomong or inclusive comment to a new colleague. It also could be oerceived as passive aggressive.

One man's meat is another man's poison and it was unwarranted to make such a comment to a new colleague who was probably trying to fit in.

It smacks of an attitude that stinks and the stink has nothing to do with the eggs.

agreed
The new colleague was supposed to laugh heartily at your joke, and she would be straight in to the bantering inner circle. The fact that she didn't has offended you. Hence this thread. I'd be surprised if you had'nt mentioned this to the other banter folk to see if they agreed it was a joke.

Now your new colleague is on the outside, she's stuffy, can't take a joke etc..

Same. I’m the one in the house who is the first to smell something is off.

I only smell eggs when they’ve gone off or I have to put my nose centimetres from them and when doing that, it’s not a strong smell to me or particularly unpleasant, but my mother smells them stronger than me and doesn’t like the smell or eggs unless they have cheese in them.

I’m definitely in the love coriander and it doesn’t taste like soap, and enjoy asparagus but hate the smell it causes which I can smell any time someone has eaten them.

I don't think 'egg bound' is a term that applies to human beings! 😂😂😂

Sure you would.

I find it interesting because I seem to generally have a very acute sense of smell. More so than most people. I don't smell eggs at all. Maybe it's one of those things like the coriander gene? Some people think it tastes like soap, others love it. Or some people can smell asparagus in the bathroom afterwards, others can't.